Stasimon 4

Question 1

what do the chorus now try to do

Answer 1

Chorus now try to find suitable comparisons to Antigone

Question 2

Danae

Answer 2

Danae: “she endured a fate like yours”shut up in a bolted brazen vault “her tomb, her bridal chamber” prison by her father Acrisius so that she couldn’t bear a grandson, an oracle had said would kill him (zeus and her birthed Perseus who later accidentally kills Acrisius) -forbidden bridegroom and underground room,

Question 3

Acrisius

Answer 3

Chorus sings of fate, Acrisius could not escape it, nothing can escape it, no power can save us from it
Like Acrisius, Creon tried to stop the consummation of marriage.

Question 4

Lycurgus

Answer 4

Lycurgus attempted to suppress the worship of Dionysus, chased after the women worshipers. Dionysus confined him in a rock and he went mad.

Though there is stone imprisonment, this is more of a warning to Creon, who used force against women and against the gods of the underworld.
“at last that madman came to know his god”